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Running your own Self-Hosted Etherpad Instance

December 18, 2009 | code, open source | 12 comments

Etherpad is an amazing real-time collaborative editor with a very low barrier for entry (no logins, no additional software, etc.). In case you missed it, Etherpad was acquired by Google and after a community uproar decided to release their code as open source under the Apache License 2.0.

We were excited to get it up and running for our own internal use. What follows is a step-by-step guide of how we proped it up on our development servers.

Caveats:

  1. We’re not Java guys, so if there is something we could be doing better, let us know.
  2. The default setup of Etherpad is RAM hungry. Make sure you have at least 256MB free before you get started.
  3. Our instructions are Ubuntu/Debian specific, but should be easy to translate to a different distribution.

Step 1: Get the Requirements

mkdir /opt/webapps/etherpad/ && cd /opt/webapps/etherpad/
sudo aptitude install ...

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Open Source Government

February 19, 2009 | open source | No comments yet.

While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative, recovery.org, I noticed something of interest.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--//--><![CDATA[/ /><!--
jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, { "basePath": "/" });
//--><!]]>
</script>

Wow, this can’t be true. Can it?

$ curl -I http://www.recovery.gov
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:36:57 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
ETag: "bc708fa7497a4a151dfc2076d5f804eb"
Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:51:07 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 14103
X-WR-MODIFICATION: Content-Length
Connection: keep-alive

Yep, it is. These little snippets aren’t much, but they speak volumes. The White House is using open source software, specifically the Apache web server, the Drupal CMS and the jQuery javascript framework.

So What?

Open source adoption is most definitely on the rise, but it still has a stigma attached. The idea that Microsoft and ...

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